Wednesday on MSNBC's 'Deadline: White House' with Nicole Wallace, #NeverTrump GOP strategist Steve Schmidt decried those saying that Starbucks founder Howard Schultz's independent run would be a "spoiler" in the 2020 election, saying:

STEVE SCHMIDT: The people who are doing the shouting, almost universally, are the same people who said Joe Biden shouldn't run because it is Hillary Clinton's turn, and they're the same people who put their thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders because he couldn't win.

And they guaranteed us that Donald Trump would never be elected.

Schmidt made a name for himself in 2016 as one of the most vocal #NeverTrump Republicans and predicted a landslide win for Hillary Clinton until the end.

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, an MSNBC contributor, said Thursday on the network that the Trump Republican party must "burn to the ground" for there to be "new growth of a conservative movement."
"So the Republican party of Teddy Roosevelt and John McCain and Ronald Reagan and...

Former Republican Steve Schmidt warned the country is heading to a "constitutional crisis" under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump because he believes he is "above the law" in an appearance on Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show Thursday. Schmidt, serving as strategist and advisor, and Wallace...

In a Thursday afternoon appearance on MSNBC with Nicole Wallace, GOP strategist Steve Schmidt commented that after the wave of attempted pipe bomb attacks against his political foes, President Trump is acting more like a wartime "tribal chieftain" than an American commander-in-chief.
"We...

MSNBC: Former Republican strategist and advisor to Howard Schultz Steve Schmidt on the political newcomer, what to expect in 2020, and how Trump changed the political game
"He’s not Jill Stein. He’s not Ross Perot. He’s not Ralph Nader," Schmidt said. "He wants to have a conversation with...